Pass output of a target as a value

Question

Is it possible to pass the output of an ant target as the value of something else? Such as:

<target name="svnrevision">
        <exec executable="svnversion" outputproperty="svnversion" />
    </target>

<target name="jar">
        ...
            <manifest>
                <attribute name="irrelevant" value="${svnversion}"/>
            </manifest> 
    </target>

Where ${svnversion} would be something like 12345.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '15 at 08:02

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Try adding a dependency between he targets

<target name="jar" depends="svnversion">

answered Oct 29 '15 at 08:02

Mark O'Connor

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 29 '15 at 00:11

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I ended up solving my own problem by having the

<exec executable="svnversion" outputproperty="svnversion" />

line be within the jar target itself. Ant didn't seem to be able to figure out what I was trying to do when it was in a separate target.

answered Oct 29 '15 at 00:11

Dumpcats

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Pass output of a target as a value

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